Machine for feeding sausage-casings.



B. A. UNVERSAW& L. G; REXROTH.

MACHINE FOR FEEDING SAUSAGE GASINGS.

APPLICATION rum) JULYll, 1910.

- Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

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MACHINE FOR FEEDING SAUSAGE GASINGS.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 11, 1910.

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UNITEI l STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EDWARD A.1 UNVERSAW AND LOUIS G. REXROTH, 0F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

MACHINE FOR FEEDING SAUSAGE-.GASIN'GS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 1913.1

. Application filed July 11, 19,10. seria no. 571,402.;

United States, residing at Indianapolis, in

the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain, new and useful, TImprovements in: Machines for Feeding Sau sage-Casings, of whichthe followingis a specification.

This invention relates to amachinc for lacin sausa e casin s :u on thes out, of a sausage machine preparatory to the filling of the casings. This part of the work of fillingcasings is now. universally done by hand, the same. not only being: a tedious operation but consuming considerable time, since these casings generally; run from forty to fifty feet in length.

The object of thepresent invention is to provide a machine bywhichisausage casings can be expeditiously placed upon the spout of the sausage machine in: a mechanical manner.

We accomplishthe above object of the invention by means of the machine illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is atop or planivielw of the machine for mechanically placing sausage casings upon the spout of a sausage-casing ;filling machine. Fig. 2 :is an elevation of the rear side of the construction shown in Fig.

1. Fig.3 is a CI'OSS-SBCtlOIl'tOIl the line 3-3 inFigs. 1,,2,.and 4. Fig.4 is an elevation of the front side of the machine.

Referring to the drawings, 10 represents a movable frame, upon which? the operating mechanism is mounted, which is swung from the vertical post 11, said post :being provided with a base plate 12 which is secured to the frame, on floor, supporting the sausage machine. immediately in advance: of the projecting spout 13 of the sausage; machine 1 (not The a frame 10 is mounted shown), and when swung into operative position the end of the s out of the sausage machine will be force between the feed rollers for automatically force-feeding the sausage casing upon; said spout. At, the completion of the operation of placinga sausage casing upon the spout of the sausage filling machine, the frame 10 may be swung or moved away from: said spout in a position substantially with the line A shownin 1 Fig. 1, sons to leave the space in advance of 155 the spout and sausage machine free and an-1 obstructechand thus not interfere with the, subsequent operation; of filling the sausage casing as the latter is forced away from the i spout during said filling process. In order that the frame 10 may be always brought: into a determined or fixed position withrelation to the spout 13 of the sausage ma-u chine, at each. succeeding operation of the a machine, we provide a locking device which. consists of a vertically positioned movable 1 catch 15 which slides in a corresponding, groove 17 within the hollow post 18 which is movably} mounted upon the fixed post 11.1. A spring 19 is placed between the upper end .70 of the movable catch 15 and the plate 20 whereby the: catch is normally held in: a. depressedposition. A hand lever 21, pivot;-

ed at22 to the frame lOpengages a link 23 at 24 and said linkengages the catch15 int 25, so that when the free end of the lever 21 is depressed the catch 15 will be raised so as to remove the lower end thereof out of the notch 26 located in the member 27, the latter member being rigidly secured to the 801 post 11 bymeans of the set screws 28. See Figs. 1 and-42v When the catch 15 has been: elevated so that=its lower edge is moved, above theupper edge of the member 27 the frame 10 may then be swung around, these lower end of the catch 15 riding upon the upper end of said member 27. When it is again desired to moveithe machine into operative position the catch 15 will drop into the notch 26 when the two register, thereby accurately fixing and locking the machine in. positive relation with respect to the sausage machine. l

The means for. mechanicallyplacingithe sausage casingsupon the spout of the sausage 1 filling machine comprises the two feed rollers 30 which are mounteddiametrically opposite each other, eachbeingsupported on each: side of the spout of the sausage filling ma.. chine. These rollers are supported on the shafts 30, and the latter have bearings and move With the movable stems 31, the latter being mounted on a pair of horizontally disposed shafts 32 which extend through and. are carried by the frame -10. Theshafts 32,5105 on the rear side of the frame 10, are provided with the crank-arms 33, the latter be- .posed pin 39, the latterubeing held at its.

lower end in a fixed position by the bracket 40 which is secured to the rear side of the frame 10. Aspring 4:1. is interposedbetween;

the bracket 40 and thelowerend of the block 38, and the tendency of the spring is to normally holdisaid block in its uppermost position whereby, through, the links 36, crank arms 3.3, shafts 32 and the movable stems 31, tension is applied to yieldably hold -therollers against each other. vWhen'the frame 10 is moved into operative position the hand lever 21'is depressed, and the horizontal portion of the, hook .4 1 (see Figs. 1 and 3) carried by said lever comes into con .tact with the, upper end of the block 38 forcing said block downwardly, this downward'movem'entthrough the links 36, crank arms 133, shafts-32 and movable stems -31,v

causing the rollers 30 to be moved a sufiicient distance apart to admit the end of the spout 13; This movement" compresses the spring-41 andthereby increases its repelling force in holding the rollers 30 tightly against said spout 13 so that whentheframe'1O is in operative position and the sausage casing is started over the end of the spout and isv brought under the rollers the latter will press. tightly against the casing and force same to travel backward upon said spout. When the frame 10 is moved away from the spout 130f the sausage machine, by withdrawing the catch 15 from the notch 26,

through the operation of the lever 21,.here

tofore, described, the rollers 30 again are simultaneously moved outward to free the spout 13 as has heretofore been described.

The machine may also be provided with the guide-plate 60 (see Fig. 3) by which the sausage casing is arranged to be guided to the end of the, spout 13.. The: guide-plate 60 maybe fixedlto the frame 10 and then bent to extend forward to the front and then bent downward as shown at 61. The portion 61 is provided with an aperture which would stand arranged approximately :in line withtheend of the spout 13. The

sausage casing: would pass through said aperture. and be delivered in a straight plane to the ends of the spout 13..

Theshafts 30 whichvcarry the rollers 30,

are provided on-their lower-ends with intermeshing pinions 50 whereby positive and uniform movement in the desired direction is secured and maintained between said rollerss30. The, teeth on the- -pinions 50 are formed of suflicient length to permit. them to intermesh a sufiicient distance as to prevent them from being, separated when the position ofth e shafts 30 is changed rela-- tively to each other,'2'.. e.,.,when it is desired to laterally move therollers away fromthe spout 13, by theoperation of the hand lever 21. One of'the pinions 50 meshes-with the horizontally positioned'pinion 52, and'the' latter around its aXisis provided withwthe' integral beveled pinion 53 which engages a corresponding pinion 54 mounted on the end of-the shaft 55. properpositionby means of the-bearing ,56 formed onthe frame lO. The shaft 55-is The shaft 55 is held in also provided with; the handwheel 57i and by means of the handle 58 the said wheelmay be rotated to impart rotary movement. through the intermediate mechanismto the rollers 30. v q

While we have shown a manually operated machine in the drawings, and asthe intermittent use of this kind of machine, for

placingcasings upon the spout of asausage.

filling, machine enables ,a machine of this kind to be used about as successfully-as a power operated machine, it; will be understood that wedo not wish to limit ourselves to a machine operated solely by manual power. 7

Having thus fully described our said 'invention what we desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a spout of a sausage-casing filling machine, a frame adapted to move into operative relation to said spout, a pair of feed rollers moving with said frame to bring; said rollers into contact with the opposite sides of said spout,

means for imparting; uniform movement of rotation to said rollers,.means-for yieldably holdingsaid rollers uniformly against the opposite sides ofsaid spout, and means for simultaneously moving said rollers laterally of said spout.

2. The combination, with a spou'tofJa sausage-casing filling machine, a frame adapted to move intoyoperative relation to I said spout, means for locking said frame. in operatlve pos1t1on,,a pa1r of ,feed rollers mounted on and movmg with said frame to bringthe rollers into contact with the sides ofsaid spout, atension-device for imparting.-

a uniform tension to ithe rollers, means, for moving said rollers awa'yfrom said spout and for unlockingsaid frame from itsoperative position.

a The combination, with r a Spout of: j

sausage-casing filling, machine, 5 a frame adapted to move into operative relatlon to said spout, means for'locking said frame into operative relation to said spout, aspair of feed rollers mounted on'and moving with said-frame'to bringthe rollers into contact with the. sides ofsaid spout, meansvforiiw parting a tension to said rollers, means for ana, this 28th day of May, A. D. one thou imparting uniform movement of rotation to sand ninehundred and ten.

said rollers, and a singlenmeans for siinul- EDWARD A UNVERSAW [LS'] taneousl movin said rollers transversely r i of said shout anc i for unlocking said frame LOUIS RELROTH' from its operative position. Witnesses In Witness whereof, We have hereunto set 1 F. WIWoERNnR our hands and seals at Indianapolis, Indi- L. B. WonnNnR.

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